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Mutations in influenza virus M1 CCHH, the putative zinc finger motif, cause attenuation in mice and protect mice against lethal influenza virus infection.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2006
Hui Eric Ka-Wai, Smee Donald F, Wong Min-Hui, Nayak Debi P
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in CCHH, the putative zinc finger motif, apparently do not play an important role in virus replication in MDCK cells in culture (E. K.-W. Hui, K. Ralston, A. K. Judd, and D. P. Nayak, J. Gen. Virol. 84:3105-3113, 2003). In this report, however, we demonstrate that the CCHH motif plays a critical role in virulence in mice and that some CCHH mutants are highly attenuated in BALB/c mice. Some of the mutant...
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